The trial of Vitaly Kaloev is underway in Switzerland Yesterday in the cantonal court of Zurich the trial began on charges of Russian citizen Vitaly Kaloyev in the murder of Dane Peter Nielsen. The prosecutor's office considers Kaloyev guilty of going to Nielsen's house on February 24, 2004 and deliberately killing him by stabbing him several times.

The Central Bank expects massive lawsuits from banks Possible litigation with banks that have not entered the deposit insurance system haunts the regulator. As Sergei Golubev, director of the Central Bank's legal department, said yesterday, negative decisions of the Bank of Russia can be overturned by the courts. So far, however, there have been no precedents on the market.

The recently released UN Development Program report “Russia in 2015: Development Goals and Priorities,” predicting an imminent crisis in the domestic labor market, once again forced politicians to pay attention to the country’s demographic problems (see Vremya Novostey, October 18) . It is noteworthy that the Russian authorities not only did not refute the pessimistic conclusions, but also agreed with the recipes for changing the situation proposed by international experts on labor migration.

Happy hormones and positive impulses From a biochemical point of view, happiness (more precisely, various kinds of positive emotions experienced by a person) is a complex process that involves a variety of proteins and hormones produced by our body. Several substances are called “happiness hormones” or “happiness molecules” in popular literature.

How to become happy? This question is answered by psychologist Alla SPIVAKOVSKAYA, professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University and the author of the original psychotherapeutic system “Beatotherapy.” Beatus means “happy, blessed” in Latin. Having been doing her business for more than 30 years, Alla Spivakovskaya came to the conclusion that the main goal of psychotherapy is human happiness. And not at all in the sense that most people think. -What is happiness?

The name of CIA secret agent Valerie Plame could have been deliberately revealed by US Vice President Dick Cheney. The American newspaper The New York Times reported this, citing sources in the commission investigating the leak of classified information from the White House. Previously, the chain of people who could tell the agent's name to journalists ended at the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and the president's chief political adviser, Karl Rove.

The company wants to buy PetroKazakhstan entirely Late this evening Moscow time, a Canadian court is due to announce whether it approves the deal to buy PetroKazakhstan, a Chinese CNPC registered in Canada, for $4.18 billion. But now the Chinese have a competitor - yesterday LUKOIL announced that it was ready to acquire PetroKazakhstan for the same price. price.

Russians are not against the opposition, but not for it either Only a third of Russians believe that there are serious opposition parties in the country. At the same time, the number of citizens who feel the need for them has increased slightly in recent years. Sociologists from the Yuri Levada Analytical Center came to these conclusions after conducting a survey of 1,600 Russians in 128 localities in 46 regions of the country in October.

Forecast for the coming days North Atlantic cyclones change each other almost daily; the previous one already on Tuesday night brought a significant change in the weather throughout our territory. His campaign across Russia continues, but in the next two days he will make the weather beyond the Urals. But a new cyclone headed from Scandinavia through the Baltic to the Volga, where it is expected on Thursday.

Vladimir Putin is advised to assign increased funding to the 30 best universities The quality of Russian education and the pace of educational reform were criticized yesterday by Vladimir Putin. At a meeting of the Council for Science, Technology and Education in the Kremlin, the president announced a “decline in the fundamental nature of secondary education” that has emerged in the last decade.

The President of the International Hockey Federation, Rene FASEL, is a frequent guest in Moscow. They say that the Russian Foreign Ministry even gave him a multiple-entry visa so that he could visit even more often. But each time Mr. Fasel’s visits become more and more brief. Yesterday, the IIHF President, energetically moving along Tverskaya Street, found only a few minutes to answer questions from Vremya Novostei correspondent Andrei VDOVINA. - Mr.

The UN hopes to rid the region of lawlessness The UN Security Council approved the start of the negotiation process on the status of the Serbian region of Kosovo.

The railway lobby wants to extract more public money from the government Where can we get such transport engineering to conquer not only the East Asian markets, but also the West? Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, having arrived in the city of Tver yesterday and inspected the decently modernized Tver Carriage Works (TVZ), decided to find out thoroughly from the “track” professionals what they were missing and what the government should do so that our carriage goes not only to the north or East.

The government returns the punishment of deprivation of property to the Criminal Code Confiscation, as one of the measures to combat crime, yesterday received an authoritative supporter not from among the security forces who do not have liberal views, but from the leadership of the country's highest courts. “We threw out the baby with the bathwater.

Relatives of militants in Kabardino-Balkaria are ready to follow the path of the Beslan mothers Having repelled a militant attack on security facilities in the Kabardino-Balkarian capital of Nalchik on October 13-14, law enforcement agencies and the civil administration of this republic were faced with the need to once again take up defensive positions. Relatives of the dead militants gather daily in the city center and demand that the bodies of their loved ones be returned to them.